A poster in the style of Kehinde Wiley with a virtual reality theme and the word “AR” in bold text
LOTUS: Diffusion-based Visual Foundation Model for High-quality Dense Prediction
“Location scouting in the latent space, flipping through different times and seasons
Meta
Meta Missed Out on Smartphones. Can Smart Glasses Make Up for It? | WIRED
“Meta Orion could be an excellent tool for gamifying first-person perspective human video collection for training humanoids. Holographic labels can guide the data collector through the process and provide real-time scores and feedback on the recorded videos to align with the
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
“🚨 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts smart glasses will replace phones by 2030 ” Smart glasses are going to become the next major computing platform. They will gradually replace phones by 2030, much like mobile devices surpassed computers without fully replacing them ”
Hands-on with Orion, Meta’s first pair of AR glasses – The Verge
Meta Teaches Its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Some New AI Tricks | WIRED
Gaussian Splatting and Nerfs
“New open source Blender plugin for 3D Gaussian Splatting. All the usual bells and whistles, including the ability to relighting your radiance fields.
“Our 3D Gaussian Splatting Render for Blender is now open-sourced. Import the 3DGS files directly to Blender using this addon and yes, it reacts to lights! Download addon and source code here:
3D Modeling
“The procedural 3D camera system from my dreams might finally be here. Here’s four virtual cameras automagically tracking your CG talent. Would also be amazing for video-to-video AI workflows.” / X
“Everything you do wearing AR glasses will be reconstructed in 3D in world space. EgoLM tracks and understands egocentric (aka PoV) motions from multimodal inputs, e.g. on your AR glasses
“WiLoR can localize and reconstruct multiple hands in real-time from single images! It achieves smooth 3D hand tracking with high accuracy, using a large dataset of over 2 million hand images. Links ⬇️
“What’s cooking in @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s kitchen? Learn how you can render breathtaking, fully ray-traced 3D scenes—alive with dynamic lighting, shadows, and reflections—with Varjo and @nvidiaomniverse in this recording of our talk session at GTC:
World Models
How AI is improving simulations with smarter sampling techniques | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Thrilled to welcome @_tim_brooks to @GoogleDeepMind. So excited to be working together to make the long-standing dream of a world simulator a reality!!” / X
“I will be joining @GoogleDeepMind to work on video generation and world simulators! Can’t wait to collaborate with such a talented team. I had an amazing two years at OpenAI making Sora. Thank you to all the passionate and kind people I worked with. Excited for the next chapter!” / X
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